Coronation in Neon

The Nevada State Police and federal marshals arrived by snowcat thirty minutes later, taking Leo Sterling into federal custody. Faced with armed burglary, attempted murder, and overwhelming forensic evidence of sixty million dollars in wire fraud, Leo was remanded without bail to the federal detention center in Reno. Three weeks later, he accepted a plea agreement resulting in a twenty-five-year sentence at a maximum-security penitentiary, ending the threat to the…